Four up for Sony slot
Computer division’s chief is the safest bet
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Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai is casting a wide net in talks to replace Sony Entertainment boss Michael Lynton.
Warner Bros. Entertainment CEO Kevin Tsujihara has interviewed for the position, according to two people familiar with the talks.
Warner’s owner Time Warner is in the process of being acquired by AT&T, and some speculate that the telecom giant will want to swing the ax and cut corporate overhead.
Another top executive being considered for the position is former Fox Networks chairman and former TPG adviser Tony Vinciquerra.
That news was first reported by Deadline.com. Vinciquerra is also a director at Pandora and Univision. Earlier in the week, The Hollywood Reporter tipped that former Hulu boss Jason Kilar was also under consideration.
The Sony brass isn’t known for making risky moves.
On the Money hears the candidate with the inside track is Andrew House, who is CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.
Early Shkreli
PharmaBro Martin Shkreli was making enemies on Wall Street well before his drugprice hiking infamy, according to a book out this month.
In “Confessions of a Wall Street Insider,” convicted insider trader Michael Kimelman describes meeting Shkreli in late 2008. Shkreli, a 25-year-old “freakishly skinny, onthe-spectrum biotech trader” at the time, was just as brash then as when he infamously hiked up the price of Daraprim 5,000 percent to $750 per tablet in September 2015.
Shkreli was tied to Royal Bank of Canada at the time and was called in to vet the trading prowess of Franz Tudor, one of Kimelman’s colleagues at the now-closed hedge fund Incremental Capital. Despite having nearly 10 years on Shkreli, Tudor was torn apart by Shkreli’s rapid-fire questioning and “psychopathic level of statistical recall and brainpower,” Kimelmanan writes. Kimelman eventually intervene dterve ned to slow the blood-letting and give his colleague a break. Despiteite Shkreli’s seemi victory that day, his fortunes soon changed. RBC fired Shkreli months later after some of his trades cost the firm millions, Kimelman writes.
Then, of course, Shkreli was arrested and charged with securities fraud in latete 2015. Kimelman predicts that if Shkreli is convicted, he will be sentenced to 10 years, he toldold our Carleton English.
Kimelman, meanwhile served nearly two years inn fed-federal prison for insider trading,ding, and his colleague Tudor, who wore a wire to tape colleagues’gues’ conversations, got three yearsears probation.
Shkreli did not respond to re-requests for comment.
tz Tom Cridland, chief execu-xecutive of an upstart UK-basedd clothing brand that has managed to get its pricey duds into the hands of celebs like Leonardoardo DiCaprio, Ben Stiller and iel Craig (pictured), is now tar-targeting ordinary shoppers.
The 26- year-old entrepreneur en eur of his eponymous companyny is blitzing through 22 US citiesies touting his shtick that his garments last 30 years — or
Cridland blitz
he’ll replace them for free. They’d better last, at $80 a pop for sweatshirts, $49 ffor T-shirts, $109 for trousers and $249 for a suit jacket. Cridland is also launching a women’s clothing line this year, he told The Post’s Lisa Fickenscher. In the midst of his whirlwind tourtour with his co-founder and girlfriend, Deborah Marx, Cridland and his band, The Tomicks, recorded an album at Los Angeles’ legendendary studio, the Village.
Pokey Moke
The Moke, an electric car first popularized by Brigitte Bardot in St. Tropez, will soon be available for purchase in the US. Todd Rome, of private jet firm Blue Star Jets — named after Gordon Gekko’s Blue Star Jets in “Wall Street” — has just acquired US rights to the electric car, still popular ini the south of France and St. Barts. The model eMOKE will sell for $15,9715,975. It’s a “LSV” — a lowspeed vehicleve that travels up to 35 miles per hour — that is “perfect for the Hamptons,” Rome told our Jennifer Gould Keil.
Correction
Last Sunday, On the Money inc or re incorrectly reported that BritneyBritn Spears’ Las Vegas showshow wasw booked at an MGM Resort property. Spears has an exclusiveexclus relationship with Planet Hollywood, which is owned by Caesars.